Joel 1:10

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“The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.”

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BSBPD

“The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Spoiled is the field, mourned hath the ground, For spoiled is the corn, Dried up hath been new wine, languish doth oil.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joel 1:10 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
  2. Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
  3. Isaiah 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
  4. Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
  5. Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  6. Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
  7. Jeremiah 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
  8. Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
  9. Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
  10. Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
  11. Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
  12. Joel 1:17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
  13. Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
  14. Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

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